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I do like how Churchill's desire for a Bavarian-Austrian-Hungarian confederation along the Danube is just your bog-standard AH "I like the idea of this country let's have it"
The same guy writing "let's permanently cripple those fucking Germans" and driving European unions with Germany is one of those quirks of history that seems wrong when you write it down.
I had not known the USSR getting a role in Germany was something Churchill proposed (and withouit asking Roosevelt?!), though I now wonder what would've happened without that since the USSR would still have been invading the place and I can't see Stalin wanting to leave & trusting the West won't rebuild Germany to attack Russia a third time that century
What Churchill did was invite Stalin west of Berlin into what became East Germany.
The Belgian zone inspired Zonen.It's the smaller things- like the Belgian zone and the brief Polish occupation area (as in Free Poland)- that really fascinate me about this era.
The Belgian zone inspired Zonen.
The same guy writing "let's permanently cripple those fucking Germans" and driving European unions with Germany is one of those quirks of history that seems wrong when you write it down.
Indian troops being used in the Occupation force in Japan as well, though there wasn't specifically an Indian zone.
For complete head-fuckery, he was a major mover and shaker in the LoN, then was the guy who pushed the Franco-British union during the fall of France. Huge de Gaulle opponent (including poisoning the well re FDR) and then one of his major people. Was a big financier and also father of France's planification.
In conclusion Jean Monnet is a land of contrasts.
How did the Japanese take it? About as well as the Germans toward the "Force noire" after WWI?
It's like that bit I like to bring up about how Reagan and Thatcher's advisors apparently had to really convince them that it would be better for the West if Gorbachev rather than Romanov became the next Soviet leader. "But wouldn't it be, like, really cool and ironic if..."I do like how Churchill's desire for a Bavarian-Austrian-Hungarian confederation along the Danube is just your bog-standard AH "I like the idea of this country let's have it."
Also he and Stalin clearly felt the need to take Roosevelt to task for the lazy use of straight borders when there were plenty existing ones he could have traced.
I enjoyed the article!Thank you for the republication!
I love this alt-history map of a Danube Confederation, which imagines that in the present day Georg von Habsburg, the grandson of the last king of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, would be the ceremonial head of state.
Thank you for the republication!
I love this alt-history map of a Danube Confederation, which imagines that in the present day Georg von Habsburg, the grandson of the last king of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, would be the ceremonial head of state.